WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, dir. Antanas JASENKA

Author of the idea and actress — Neringa BULOTAITĖ

Playwright — Audra BARANAUSKAITĖ

Director — Antanas JASENKA

Set designer — Giedrė BRAZYTĖ

Composers — Antanas JASENKA

Video projection author — Džiugas KATINAS

Assistant director — Bartė LIAGAITĖ

I found her, Virginia Woolf, or more precisely, her novel "Mrs. Dalloway", probably driven by a hunger to create. It happened a long time ago, almost a decade ago, and since then the thought of creating a play on the theme of Virginia Woolf has never left me. Such is my strange fate in the Theatre (I keep trying to ask myself – am I really in the right place) – that in order to survive, I had to provide work for myself. The roles offered in the theatre are crumbs, and I am too curious, too impatient to wait for that something I dreamed of. I look around and see crowds of colleagues like me who only get a few serious roles throughout their careers.

However, our romance with Virginia Woolf took a long time. So many attempts to overcome this material, so many people tried to be infected with this idea... So many sticks received from Fate... It remains to be amazed at my own determination – do "thoughts materialize"?

The author is important to me because she showed her treasures and even gave me the key to how to open them and use them. I think it is difficult to read this writer's works without knowing about her – "the secrets of my soul, experiences are written in my works". That's what happened to me with her "Diaries", found during a tour in Saint Petersburg. That's when the journey towards her began.

Virginia Woolf is important just because she is among the top hundred best writers in the world. And if her crystal-clear, deeply felt, vibrating "stream of consciousness" resonates with the reader's consciousness – it can happen as it did to me. It will just be hard to break free.

Neringa Bulotaitė

The creation of the play was partially funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture

Partners: theatre "cezario grupė" and OKT / Vilnius City Theatre